HE: I like the synthesized organ but where’s the lesbian stuff?
Friendo: It’s gotta be there. That’s the whole point of the story. I never saw the musical.
HE: I just watched the trailer, and there’s no pop-out lesbo material. Holding of hands, endearing looks…that’s about it.
Friendo: You can’t just blunder into assumptions. You have to ask someone who knows.
HE: My eyes are not assumptions.
Directed by Blitz Bazawule and based on the 2005 stage musical of the same name, The Color Purple opens on 12.25.
“Addressing Bisexuality, Gender Non Conformance and Performativity through The Color Purple by Alice Walker,” by Chantrell M. Lewis.
“Though in the musical the sexual relationship between Shug and Celie is slightly censored, the connection is still very evident in the approach taken by the actresses. Text from the novel indicates that the two women make love.”
HE rimshot: My general visual impression is that a lot of the cinematography seems rather under-lighted and shadowed.